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VP council is updated on LUS Fiber initiative

By: NANCY DUPLECHAIN Staff Reporter Ryan Meche, director of LUS Fiber, addressed the Ville Platte City Council at their April 11 meeting. He discussed bringing fiber optics broadband to Evangeline Parish, including the Ville Platte community.

AUDREY ARDOIN VERRETTE

A Mass of Christian Burial was held for Mary Audrey Ardoin Verrette at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Ville Platte. Entombment followed at the Sacred Heart Mausoleum. Visitation was held from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.

JOANN VIDRINE MIXON

VILLE PLATTE - A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Ville Platte today, April 13, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. for JoAnn Vidrine Mixon, who passed away on Thursday, April 6, 2023, at the age of 75. Burial will follow in the Sacred Heart Mausoleum.

LESTER EARL SOILEAU JR.

VILLE PLATTE - Funeral services for Lester Earl Soileau, 84, will be held at 11 a.m. today April 13, 2023, at Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Catholic Church with entombment to follow in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Father Mitch Guidry will officiate the funeral Mass.

GERMAINE FONTENOT JANICE

VILLE PLATTE - Funeral services for Germaine Fontenot Janice, 81, were held at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial followed in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Father Tom Voorhies officiated the funeral Mass.

ETHELENE MARIE DURIO SYLVESTER

VILLE PLATTE - Funeral services for Ms. Ethelene Marie D. Sylvester, 77, were held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at St. Peter Catholic Church in Grand Prairie. Burial followed in the Evangeline Memorial Park Cemetery. Father Mitch Guidry officiated the funeral Mass.

REGINA LOIS CAMPBELL

VILLE PLATTE – Funeral services will be held at a 1:30 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial at Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Ville Platte on Friday, April 14, 2023, for Regina Lois Campbell, 71, who passed away on Saturday, April 8, 2023.

Search warrant is executed in Gabriel Villa, nets arrest

Sheriff Charles R. Guillory, of the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office, releases the following: On April 5, the Evangeline Parish Sheriff Departments Narcotics Unit along with the Allen Parish Swat team executed a search warrant in the Gabriel Villa Apartment Complex.

EPSO Arrests

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail.

As Bud Light goes woke, customers go away

For years, major American corporations have been moving to the far left, embracing radical causes, and showing disdain for their customers. A perfect illustration occurred in 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. The Claremont Institute discovered that major corporations gave $83.